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Welcome to Birdquest
Please use the options below to view photos from specific places or of particular creatures. Alternatively, scroll though the pictures using the arrows at the bottom of the page.
Good (indeed record for a Birdquest tour) numbers of Polar Bears were once again the highlight of our superb Spitsbergen tour (tour participant Jake Manson)
Superb breeding-plumaged Red Phalaropes were real show-stoppers! (tour participant Jake Manson)
Stunning Ivory Gulls were perhaps the avian highlight of our special Arctic adventure (tour participant Jake Manson)
Not as special, but still great to see, were numerous Glaucous Gulls (tour participant Jake Manson)
Second only to the bears was our memorable encounters with huge bull Walruses (tour participant Jake Manson)
Another mammalian highlight from Spitsbergen was some sneaky Arctic Foxes! (tour participant Jake Manson)
M/V Professor Multanovskiy was our base on the Spitsbergen 2008 tour (Hannu Jännes).
Our fleet of Zodiacs heading for new adventures, Spitsbergen 2008 (Hannu Jännes).
They have some strange traffic signs in Spitsbergen (Hannu Jännes).
It took quite some time before we found this magnificent beast on drift ice. North Spitsbergen 2008 (Hannu Jännes).